***Yes, I've used vegetable oil for T-mite control for many years.
***Place a paper towel, saturated with vegetable oil, between the
***two broodchambers BEFORE the supers go on and AFTER they come
***off. The bees chew up the paper and cast it out and in so doing
***get the oil all over their bodies, thus preventing mite transference.
 
***I use Apistan strips to control the V-mite; however, Pedro Rodriguez
***in Virginia Beach writes that he used Mineral Grade Oil for controlling
***both. I sent him email to verify this but have yet to get a response.
 
>On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Juan Manuel Reil wrote:
>IS SOMEBODY USING VEGETAL OIL TO CONTROLLING MITES ?.
> ARE YOU USING VEGETAL OIL TO CONTROLLING  T_MITE,  V_MITE OR  BOTH OF THEM
> ?
> HOW?.
> THANK YOU.
 
 
**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
   Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
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